For folks in the USA, it’s the July 4th holiday weekend. Barbecues, picnics, swimming parties, and fireworks are happening all over the country. Red, white, and blue stars and stripes are visible in every direction. It’s a fun holiday – most people are in festive moods.
The point of the Independence Day holiday is to celebrate freedom.
It’s about being free, living in a land that is free, … [Read more...]

Need some tips for reducing shame? One of the hardest areas of healing work in trauma disorders is dealing with shame.
For many survivors of sexual abuse, healing work involves learning about a lot of intense memories that leave them feeling a great deal of shame, humiliation, and embarrassment. These are difficult emotions to process, and the memory material is typically very overwhelming.
Some survivors … [Read more...]

I am writing this blog article in response to a blog comment / question sent to me re: the frequency of ritual / cult abuse.
I am also going to clarify what the term "organized abuse" means to me.
For the purposes of this blog response, I am going to give an answer based on my personal experience as a trauma therapist that specializes in Dissociative Disorders. Some day I will check into the official … [Read more...]

Next week, I will be attending the 2009 CONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN.
AbuseConsultants.com will be an exhibitor at this conference.
If you are attending this conference, please stop by my exhibit table and let’s chat for awhile!
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http://www.ccawonline.org/try_2.html
2009 CONFERENCE ON CRIMES AGAINST WOMEN
March 2-4, 2009
Dallas Texas
CO-PRESENTED BY GENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER
AND THE DALLAS … [Read more...]

Dissociative Identity Disorder is created from severe, chronic child abuse, but does that abuse automatically stop in childhood?
Unfortunately, no, it does not.
All too many survivors continue to be trapped in abusive environments long after their childhood has ended. Sometimes this abuse continues with the same family-related perpetrators that abused the survivor all throughout the childhood … [Read more...]

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